Literature and the English Civil War

Abstract

Notes on contributors Introduction: 'Warre is all the world about' Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday Part I. Definitions and Premonitions: 1. The very name of the game: theories of order and disorder Annabel Patterson 2. A troubled Arcadia Graham Parry Part II. Engagement or Retreat: 3. Politics and the masque: Salmacida Spolia Martin Butler 4. Exploring the language of devotion in the English revolution Helen Wilcox Part III. Truth and the Self: 5. In the wars of truth: violence, true knowledge and power in Milton and Hobbes Francis Barker 6. 'Some rousing motions': the plurality of Miltonic ideologies Thomas N. Corns 7. 'Mysteriously divided': Civil War, madness and the divided self Jonathan Sawday Part IV. Interpreting the Present: 8. Marvell's 'Horatian Ode' and the politics of genre David Norbrook 9. 'Dark all without it knits': vision and authority in Marvell's Upon Appleton House Thomas Healy 10. History digested: opera and colonialism in the 1650s Susan J. Wiseman 11. Cheap and common animals: the English anatomy of Ireland in the seventeenth century Patricia Coughlan Part V. Aftermath: 12. 'The Colonel's Shadow': Lucy Hutchinson, women's writing, and the Civil War N. H. Keeble 13. Exporting enthusiasm: John Perrot and the Quaker epic Nigel Smith Index.

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